Web Hosting Control Panel

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1 Web Hosting Control Panel cpanel Hosting refers to any web hosting plan that uses cpanel as its web hosting control panel. cpanel is the leading control panel interface in the web hosting industry today. It uses a graphical interface that greatly simplifies the management of a website. As such, we offer cpanel on each of our web hosting plans. cpanel simplifies a lot of the routine website management tools by providing users an easy to use front-end interface. It allows you to easily manage your accounts, your FTP accounts, the files that are on your website, your add-on domains, your sub-domains, your MySQL databases, and it will even provide you with your website statistics. cpanel will also allow to access Fantastico, the instant script installer. With Fantastico, you can install a variety of popular scripts such as WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Mambo, phpbb, Zen Cart, OS Commerce, Coppermine, Gallery, and much more. You can install each of these with just a few easy clicks and avoid the hassle of installing scripts the traditional way.

2 FILES Use the File Manager to quickly manage and navigate your files. This feature allows you to upload, create, remove, and edit files without the hassle of FTP or other third-party applications. Manage the images on your site with the Images feature. You can resize, convert file types, or view your images with this built-in feature. The Disk Usage feature scans your disk and displays a graphical overview of your account's available space. After you know which files use the most space, you can clean out the clutter. Web Disk gives you access to your website's files as if they were a local drive on your computer. Use this feature to edit, navigate, upload, and download files on a remote web server. FTP Connections allow you to see who is logged in to your site via FTP. Terminate FTP connections to prevent file access by unwarranted users. Use the FTP Accounts interface to manage File Transfer Protocol (FTP) accounts.

3 Use the Backup Wizard as a step-bystep guide to assist you and make certain that you do not lose anything important. When you use the Backup interface to back up your website, you download a zipped copy of your entire site to your computer (home directory, databases, forwarders, and filters). If you have files that you wish to be publicly available to download, use Anonymous FTP to allow users to connect to your FTP directory without a password. It is risky to allow anonymous users to access any part of your system and may be considered a security hole. Use Directory Privacy to limit access to certain resources on your website. Enable this feature to password-protect specific directories that you want to keep private from certain visitors. DATABASES phpmyadmin is a third-party tool that you can use to manipulate MySQL databases. For more information about how to use phpmyadmin, visit the phpmyadmin website. MySQL Databases allow you to manage large amounts of information over the web easily. They are necessary to run many web-based applications, such as bulletin boards, content management systems, and online retail shops.

4 MySQL Database Wizard allow you to manage large amounts of information over the web easily. They are necessary to run many web-based applications, such as bulletin boards, content management systems, and online retail shops. Remote MySQL allows you to configure databases to be accessed remotely. This can be useful if you want to allow applications, such as bulletin boards, shopping carts, or guestbooks, on your other servers to access the databases. DOMAINS Use the Site Publisher interface to quickly create simple websites from a variety of templates. You can use this feature, for example, to ensure that visitors can find your contact information while you design a more elaborate website. Addon Domains are additional websites that are hosted on your account. Each addon domain has its own files and will appear as a separate website to your visitors. Domain Aliases allow you to point additional domain names to your existing hosting account. This allows users to reach your website if they enter the pointed domain URL in their browsers. Redirects allow you to make a specific web page redirect to another page and display the contents of that page. This allows you to make a page with a long URL accessible through a page with shorter, more memorable URL.

5 Subdomains are subsections of your website that can exist as a new website without a new domain name. Use subdomains to create memorable URLs for different content area of your site. Use the Advanced Zone Editor to add, edit, and remove A, AAAA, CNAME, SRV, and TXT DNS records. Use the Accounts interface to manage the account associated with your domains. Mailing Lists allow you to use a single address to send to multiple addresses. Forwarders allow you to allow you to forward any incoming from one address to another. For example, if you have two different accounts, you could forward. An MX Entry allows you to route a domain's incoming mail to a specific server. Use this feature if you want to create a backup mail exchanger to handle even when your server is down.

6 Use Auto responders to send automated s to anyone who messages a specific account. This can be useful if you are on vacation or unavailable, or if you have a generic message that you wish to send from a support address. The Default Address feature allows you to set up a default address that receives any mail that is sent to an invalid address for the domain. The default address is also commonly called a catch-all address. Use Track Delivery to review delivery attempts. You can also use this feature to trace an 's delivery route. It can be useful if you need to locate problems with delivery. The Archive allows you to save incoming, outgoing, or mailing list s for a specified amount of time. Use the Calendars & Contacts interface to configure calendars & contact applications. Use Global Filters to create filters for your main account. Use Filters to create filters for an address that you specify. This can be useful if you want to avoid spam, redirect mail, or pipe messages to a program.

7 Authentication helps you make your server more secure and provides information about outgoing messages. This helps the recipient server verify whether an was sent from a trusted sender. The Address Importer allows you to use two types of files to create multiple addresses or forwarders simultaneously. Apache pamassassin is an filter that is used to identify spam. Use the Calendars and Contacts interface to configure calendars and contact applications. GnuPG is a publicly available Encryption scheme that uses the "public key" approach. With GnuPG, messages use a "public key" to encrypt messages and can only be decrypted by a "private key." To protect your inbox from spam, BoxTrapper requires all senders who are not on your "Whitelist" to reply to a verification before receive the . spam. Configure Greylisting feature allows you to manage Greylisting for each domain on your account. Greylisting defends users against METRICS

8 Visitors metrics display the most recent entries in the Apache log for a given domain. problems. Errors metrics display the last 300 errors for your site. Use this metrics program to find broken links, missing files & other Bandwidth metrics display your site's monthly and overall bandwidth usage. Raw Access metrics allow you to see who has visited your website without graphs, charts, or other graphics. Download a zipped version of your server's access log if you want to quickly access your site's visitors. Awstats metrics is a third-party program that produces visual statistics about visitors to your site. Analog Stats is a metrics program that produces a simple summary of all of the people who have visited your site. Webalizer is a metrics program that produces a variety of charts and graphs about who has visited your site. Use the Metrics Editor to select the metrics programs you want to run on each domain. SECURITY

9 Use SSH Access to connect to your sever remotely, through the command line, with strong authentication & secure communications. Prevent access to your site from a range of IP addresses with the IP Blocker. Enter a fully qualified domain name, this feature will attempt to resolve IP address. Use the SSL TLS interface to manage SSL/TLS keys, certificates, & signing requests and enhance your website's security. A hotlink occurs when another site embeds content from your site & uses your bandwidth to serve the files. cpanel allows you to prevent hotlinks to your site with the Hotlink Protection feature. Use Leech Protection to set a maximum number of logins that can occur within a two-hour time limit. This feature can help manage users who wish to give out or publicly post their passwords to a restricted area of your site. The ModSecurity interface allows you to enable or disable ModSecurity for your domains. SOFTWARE

10 The PHP feature allows you to view specific information about your server's PHP configuration PHP PEAR Packages are collections of functions that allow you to perform tasks in PHP. Need install PEAR package before use it in PHP program. Perl Modules are collections of functions that allow you to perform tasks in Perl. You will need to install a Perl module before you can use it in a Perl program. RubyGems are collections of functions that allow to perform tasks in Ruby. You will need to install a Gem before it use it inside a Ruby program. Tweak the way Apache serves responses and enhance the performance of your website with the Optimize Website feature. The Site Software feature allows you to add useful software to your website. The software that is available to you depends on which software your hosting provider grants to you. ADVANCED

11 Cron Jobs allow you to automate certain commands or scripts on your site. You can set a command or script to run at a specific time every day, week, etc. For example, you could set a cron job to delete temporary files every week to free up disk space. Use the Track DNS feature to look up an IP address or trace the route from your computer to your web server. This feature can help you verify that your DNS is configured properly. If a visitor attempted to access a directory on your site, they will typically see an Apache index page for that directory. If no index page exists, the browser will automatically display an index of the files in that directory. Use the Indexes feature to customize a directory to view on web. Error Pages inform visitors that the web server cannot access your site. For example, a visitor who enters a nonexistent URL will see a 404 error. Use this feature to configure the way error page messages display on the web. Apache Handlers control how the Apache web server manages certain file types and extensions for your site. You can manually add the handler and extension to configure Apache to handle a new file type with an existing handler. MIME Types relay information to the browser to handle specific file extensions. Most servers, text/html MIME type equates to.htm,.html, &.shtml extensions, which tells the browser to interpret all files as HTML files. PREFERENCES

12 Use the Password & Security interface to change cpanel account password to manage External Authentication. Use the Change Language interface to select the language in which the cpanel interface displays. Use the Contact Information interface to set contact information & configure notification preferences. User Manager interface allows to add, manage, delete subaccounts. The interface allows to link service accounts to subaccounts.